All posts tagged Typhoon Usagi

Foxconn, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronics, said a large-scale fight broke out at one of its Chinese campuses last week, the latest sign of growing labor unrest in the country; two years after it tried to position itself as a global player by downgrading U.S. government debt, China’s best known credit-ratings firm is raising red flags over a problem close to home: climbing local-government debt; with soaring wages and an aging population, electronics factory managers say the day is approaching when robotic workers will replace people on the Chinese factory floor. Read More »

A court convicted the once powerful Communist Party insider of bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power in China’s most politically charged trial in more than three decades; a forceful campaign of intimidation against China’s most influential Internet users has cast a chill over public debate in the country and called into question the long-term viability of its most vibrant social-media platform; typhoon Usagi made landfall in China’s southern Guangdong province near Hong Kong on Sunday night, after the powerful storm battered the Philippines and Taiwan. Read More »

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